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I didn't take too many photos since I knew there would be professional-level folks out there doing stills and video, with 99% of it available for sale. Still, I wanted to get something of my own making, for a personalized take on the eclipse. So I made what turned out to be a fairly decent timelapse of my house with the eclipse going on in the southern sky behind it with my GoPro camera, though a very wide angle, unfiltered view as you might expect (1800 photos shot over a 2.5 hour session, 1 every 5 seconds).

I made a few pictures with my Fuji S-1 Bridge camera during the early part of the event, but they weren't anything special. When totality came up, though, I did just about everything the online pundits (not here!) said a rookie eclipse shooter would do: I was transfixed as predicted, then snapped out of it only to get amazingly fumble-fingered, probably due to realizing I had 2 minutes & 20 seconds to get something ("and you've probably already wasted half of it, you idiot!!").

Still, I discovered later on when I downloaded what was on the memory card, I got at least something worth showing. This started out as a RAW image; I ran it through PSE (Adobe Camera RAW) to get a jpeg to post here. I thought I read something here that said if I check "store original" then the properties information would be available to whoever wanted to see it, so I'll do that.

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Tikva Loc: Waukesha, WI

Thank you for sharing. Even though there have been lots of eclipse phots posted, it is nice to have some of your own to make it personal.